Topics

An Australian fishing vessel that had been stuck in Antarctic ice for nearly a week is now freed. The vessel, called the Antarctic Chieftain, got out of its icy trap Friday night with the assistance of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star. The Polar Star will now tow the Antarctic Chieftain to open water to test whether the ship can maneuver itself after three of its four propeller blades were damaged by ice, according to a statement from the Coast Guard. Once this testing is complete, the two ships will continue north through 60 miles of icy sea to meet a New Zealand fishing vessel that will either escort or tow the Antarctic Chieftain to a safe harbor, Chief Warrant Officer Allyson...

Related "U.S. Coast Guard" Articles

An Australian fishing vessel that had been stuck in Antarctic ice for nearly a week is now freed.
The vessel, called the Antarctic Chieftain, got out of its icy trap Friday night with the assistance of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star.
The Polar...

A San Pedro man has been sentenced to four years in prison for endangering a diver who died last year when his breathing equipment got tangled in kelp off Catalina Island.
Craig Lightner was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in July to involuntary...

The cruise ship carrying a Dallas hospital worker who had contact with lab samples of a man infected with Ebola docked in Galveston, Texas, early this morning after a helicopter retrieved a blood sample from the woman Saturday.
Carnival Cruise Lines...

A police officer used an iPad to track down a 28-year-old woman who was trapped overnight after her car rolled hundreds of feet down an embankment just east of San Jose, police said.
The woman's stepmother reported her missing about 3 a.m. Tuesday...

High surf swept away two fishermen Sunday at Rodeo Beach in Marin County, killing one of them, officials said.
The men were fishing from rocks when they were swept out into the surf zone at 12:22 p.m., according to National Park Service and...

A San Francisco ferry carrying hundreds of passengers to Oakland hit a harbor piling in San Francisco on Sunday, injuring children and adults as they tumbled, including one who suffered a gash over his eye.
The accident occurred about 5:45 p.m. at Pier...

A man who planned to run from Miami to Bermuda in an inflatable bubble was rescued this weekend off northern Florida, three days after the Coast Guard asked him to call off his trip, officials said.
The Coast Guard said it received a report Wednesday...

The body of a pilot who went missing after his Cessna collided midair with another small plane in waters off San Francisco was recovered Wednesday from inside the wreckage.
Working with the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office, a marine salvage company...

A sailboat participating in a race struck a buoy outside Redwood City off the San Francisco Peninsula on Wednesday evening, killing one person and injuring another, authorities said.
The sailboat was in the shallow waters just outside the city’s yacht...

SAN DIEGO — A U.S. Navy warship reached a crippled sailboat hundreds of miles off Mexico and was preparing Sunday to complete the rescue of a sick 1-year-old girl. The transfer of the child from the 36-foot boat to the ship was expected to start...

Maybe because I’m not a parent, I don’t have a problem with the San Diego couple who decided to set sail across the South Pacific in a 36-foot boat from Mexico with their 1-year-old and 3-year-old daughters in tow. Even though things went seriously wrong....

SEATTLE — A Coast Guard investigation into the 2012 grounding of the Kulluk, an offshore drilling rig operated by Royal Dutch Shell in the harsh Arctic, blasted the oil company for legal violations, poor management and taking undue risks, according to the...

An advisory that spread around social media Thursday warning of great white sharks in the water near Newport Beach was no more real than "Sharknado," Coast Guard and city officials said.
The fake warning said sharks had been sighted between...

The Mexican national convicted of killing a veteran U.S. Coast Guard officer after ramming a panga into his boat off the Santa Barbara coast was sentenced Monday to life in federal prison without parole.
Jose Mejia-Leyva, 42, was convicted of...

He grew up on the sea. So maybe it's only natural that Dillon Griffith still has some salt water in his blood.
Which would help explain why the 82-year-old retired heavy-duty mechanic has spent the last 37 years — miles from the ocean — meticulously...

Los Angeles County sheriff's officials found a body Sunday morning in the area where an 18-year-old swimmer disappeared last week.
Members of the sheriff's emergency services detail found a body in Abalone Cove, but could not confirm whether it was the...

More than two dozen kite boarders and windsurfers were rescued in San Francisco Bay after low winds left them stranded in the path of large commercial ships.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 25 wind surfers and kite boarders just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday...

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter Tuesday rescued a 71-year-old man from a fishing boat 30 miles off San Diego after he suffered a possible heart attack.
The man was aboard the 56-foot commercial fishing boat Seeker when he collapsed, injuring himself. The...

A casino boat ran aground off the coast of Georgia during its maiden voyage Tuesday night, leaving 94 passengers and 31 crew members stranded for more than 12 hours.
The incident began about midnight, when the vessel struck land about 2 miles northeast...

The California National Guard on Monday joined more than a dozen other agencies to help the Yurok tribe combat rampant marijuana grows that have threatened the reservation's water supply, harmed its salmon and interfered with cultural ceremonies.
Law...